RE: Nigger -> Nigga

Zitat:Melioration and pejoration. These are purely subjective terms referring to cases when a word’s meaning becomes either more positive (melioration or amelioration) or more negative (pejoration). Two examples of melioration from English are nice, which meant originally ‘simple, ignorant’ but now ‘friendly, approachable,’ and paradise, which in Greek originally referred to an enclosed park or pleasure-garden, but came to be used for the Garden of Eden, whence the English meaning. Pejoration affected the word silly, earlier ‘blessed’ (cf. German selig), as well as mean, whose earlier meaning ‘average’ has been ratcheted down to ‘below average, nasty’ (cf. German gemein, now ‘common, low, vulgar’ from ‘common, shared’).